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Quantum Gravity Is A Mental Disorder! (ft. Eric Weinstein)

2025-05-22 Science & Technology
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💥 Join my mailing list to win a meteorite: briankeating.com/yt Will Eric Weinstein’s Geometric Unity Survive the Rubin Revolution? Can Geometric Unity solve the deepest mysteries of the universe—or will it be challenged by a new wave of precision cosmology from experiments like DESI and the Vera Rubin Observatory? Eric Weinstein proposes that the cosmological constant isn’t constant—a claim now being tested by experiments like DESI and the groundbreaking Rubin survey. With Rubin rewriting astronomy in real time, are we witnessing the beginning of the end for the Lambda-CDM model? 🎥 Watch my full Rubin interview here: First Data from Vera Rubin Observatory Rewrites Astronomy This video features Eric’s 2025 UCSD lecture where he updates his theory before a live audience of physicists. We cover torsion, spinors, unification, and why experimental data—especially from Rubin—may now make or break the theory. ⸻ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:58 Cosmological sector and geometric unity 03:57 The Poincaré group 08:31 Quantum gravity and the standard model 14:41 Torsion and gauge invariance 28:13 Spinor group and 14-dimensional space 38:24 Grand unification and spinors 42:34 The Higgs is an illusion 50:08 Outro 📢 Don’t miss Sean Carroll debating Eric on Piers Morgan ⸻ Want more on the Rubin Observatory and how it could reshape physics? ➡️ Watch: First Data from Rubin Observatory ➡️ Subscribe: DrBrianKeating ➡️ Newsletter: briankeating.com/list ⸻ More on Eric: 🌐 ericweinstein.org 🎙️ The Portal Podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast for those seeking the unknown edges of science, from unification theories to cosmic surveys reshaping what we know. #IntoTheImpossible #BrianKeating #EricWeinstein #VeraRubin #GeometricUnity #DarkEnergy #DESI #PhysicsPodcast ⸻ Let me know if you want a Rubin mention CTA added to pinned comments or mid-video cards.

Top Comments (10)

@fadingdimension 2025-05-22

This sounds like me trying to explain to my wife why I cannot visit with her parents this weekend.

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@winstonsmith8240 2025-05-23

"Eric Weinstein is one of the greatest minds alive today." - Eric Weinstein.

722 41 replies
@rareshb 2025-05-23

This talk is so great. I can watch it front to back, back to front or skip randomly through it, and my level of understanding does not vary.

197 12 replies
@BoerTheVile 2025-05-24

I have a PhD in mathematics from MIT and I can confirm most of what he says is correct… just kidding I’m a pipe fitter and I don’t even know what language this video is in

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@jravell 2025-05-22

It’s amazing to hear someone speak in a language in which I am fluent yet hardly understand a word of it.

136 19 replies
@Reggie-c8y 2025-05-23

When is the English version of this lecture coming out?

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@carloscappellini1687 2025-05-25

Later, he realized the class was actually given to dental hygiene students…

102 3 replies
@jacksonelmore6227 2025-05-25

Get Terence Howard on the case

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@DrBrianKeating 2025-05-22

Has Eric Weinstein killed the Cosmological Constant and discovered a new theory of everything?*What was your favorite takeaway from this conversation?* _Please join my mailing list to get _*_FREE_*_ notes & resources from this show! Click_ 👉 http://briankeating.com/yt

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@brian4117 2025-05-25

I wish, after the lecture, there were a Q&A from the audience of mathematicians and physicists.

65 22 replies

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